Web Services Emerging To Help Push Real Time Content To Signs April 11, 2014 by Super User The technical stuff here is way the heck over my head, but a startup just coming out of private beta would at least seem to have a service that would intrigue digital signage software companies that use browsers as players and use, or want to use, a lot of live data. TechCrunch has a post …
Tapping The Social Media Firehose For Digital Signage Content April 8, 2014 by Super User When I spend time with consulting clients who want to have, or are upgrading, public-facing digital signage networks, the conversation around the content mix usually involves a discussion about what the client does with social media. Usually, it’s very little, because social media is this big, unwieldy thing that keeps shape-shifting and causing trouble. That’s …
2 Hemisphere Puts Digital Signage Content Focus On Health March 11, 2014 by Super User Ventura, California-based agency 2 Hemispheres, which lists digital signage content among several capabilities, has started making noise about its impressive library of health-focused content available for digital signage network operators. The agency has some 200 digital signage network-tuned video clips on a variety of health topics, available for download by network operators. Executive Creative Director James …
Signagelive Now Has Screenfeed Inside March 9, 2014 by Super User A few digital signage software companies have talked in the last two or three years about their plans to make content marketplaces part of their offer, but I’ve not seen a lot that extends beyond some content widgets for weather and tickers. Instead, the companies that do automated content feeds have been, by and large, …
Three Content Options, Two Free, For St. Patrick’s Day Greetings March 6, 2014 by Super User St. Paddy’s Day is less than two weeks out and if your network or business has a lot of Celtic people – or just a lot of people who seize that day for serious partying – you might want to get a greeting on the screen. Here are three options for you (there may be …
Projects: Oscars Red Carpet Stretches All The Way To US Malls March 6, 2014 by Super User Screenfeed has long been known for curating and very nicely presenting news, data, images and video in automated feeds for digital signage networks, but it added an interesting new wrinkle the other night when it live-streamed video from the Academy Awards red carpet last Sunday. The live stream took over large digital screens placed in several …
Well Of Course People Buy More Beer When They Get Weather Reports February 20, 2014 by Super User Spotted by a reader at a convenience store in Gatineau, Quebec (near Ottawa). Anheuser-Busch InBev has had these in Canada for a few years now, but I made the silly assumption they were put in place to move boxes of beer. Apparently the plan is also to give shoppers sports score and tell tell them what …
Screenfeed Has Automated Sochi Content At Start Line January 21, 2014 by Super User This looks like a smart, timely and sticky content plan for February. Minneapolis-based Screenfeed has a set of three content feeds for the Sochi Winter Olympics (did I just infringe some rights thing by typing that???). There’s news in pictures, video footage and medal standings. The one-time feed fee starts at $20 a player, and …
What Apple’s iBeacons Mean For Digital Signage December 6, 2013 by Super User Apple has reportedly turned on its iBeacons capability in all of its 250+ US stores, giving it the capability to push messages to opted-in shoppers as they wander near and into the store. The tech uses the newest low-energy flavor of Bluetooth, and users need an official iOS Apple Store app for things to start …
Flixio’s Festive Food Fight November 21, 2013 by Super User Portland-based digital signage creative shop Flixio (they do other stuff, too) has sent out a very nicely done reverse food fight thing showing, I assume, staff having and flinging their Thanksgiving feast. Enjoy.
